Done in Photoshop CS3. Inspired by "The Rise of a Planet" from DeviantArt.

I used a public domain NASA image of the Horsehead nebula, removed the noise and errors and optimized the color range and saturation.

You can find the unedited original here: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0661.html

Minimum credit line: T.A.Rector (NOAO/AURA/NSF) and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA)

I used a public domain NASA image of the Orion nebula, removed the noise and optimized the color range and saturation.

You can find the unedited original here:
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0349.html

Minimum credit line: T.A.Rector (NOAO/AURA/NSF) and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA)

The composition of the cosmos. Created entirely in Photoshop CS4. Enjoy!

Nikon D100 with 18-200mm f3.5-f5.6 AF-S VRII 10 sec @ f/3.5 18mm focal length, Tripod mounted, VR off ISO 200.

Photo manipulation done sometime last year, Stock images from Sxc.hu

The big citylife skyline. Could be any city ;) Wish I could see something like this in my life.

This image is 100% Photoshop. It took about 6 hours to create. When i was making the planet on the left i was just about done when i kicked out the power plug without saving the image. I had to redo it and the quality isn't as good as the original. That was frustrating. Anyway hope you like ;)

Public domain image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Original unedited version may be found at: nasaimages.org
(NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org)

Special thanks to chriscologne for the idea of retouching astronomy photos. I used Photoshop CS3 and plugins to retouch the image.

A cute birdie is watching butterflies by the lake.